Top 1200 Self Reflection Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

There's a lot to be said for being in a room with a casting agent or a director. There are things you can't really replicate when you're self-taping and there's the bonus of having someone to direct you, which is extremely helpful. The benefit of self-taping is, I suppose, being on your own clock. It's certainly more relaxing to self-tape than to audition with someone in the flesh but I don't know if it's necessarily better.

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

The child is born with a Self but not with an ego. The child develops the ego. As he becomes more and more social and related, ego develops. This ego is just on your periphery where you are related with others - just on the boundary of your being. So ego is the periphery of your being, and Self is the center. The child is born with a Self, but unaware. He is a Self, but he is not conscious of the Self.

What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

Fear comes from personal self-acceptance and not the self.

The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.

Self care isn't selfish. It's self esteem.

You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other people. That's what I had to do, I had to do for self.

Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

......at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it. we are ready to move on, to go beyond the self, beyond even its most intimate union with God, and this is where we enter yet another new life- a life best categorized, perhaps, as a life without a self.

Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

Self-government means self support.

So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.

Fashion and beauty is a reflection of what's on the inside. And if you're genuine, they match up. The core of who you are will be the same.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

The older you get, the more you realize that the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself.

When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!

The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down

Self worship is different from self love.

Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval.

Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God; for we may be come upon at any moment for an almost heroic display of good temper. It is a short road to unselfishness; for nothing is left to self. All that seems to belong most intimately to self, to be self's private property, such as time, home, and rest, are invaded by these continual trials of patience.

Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that if I got used to it, I'd be reliant all my life.

Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.

Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

My usual self is a very unusual self.

He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.

What you really are isn’t loyal to your self. It won’t favor your self. It will turn your self into what you really are.

Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

When you are in the mundane from what is deeper than your self, you realize the mundane to be more than your self, and your self opens. It opens in its structuring and in its form, enabling you as the form of your self to move in the deeper levels of the mundane

Self-respect leads to self-discipline.

Translate all self-judgments into self-empathy.

Love your self's self where it lives.

Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

One way of celebrating the Solstice is to consider it a sacred time of reflection, release, restoration, and renewal.

When I began to write my books about Coalwood, I was surprised to discover, upon reflection, that it wasn't an ordinary place at all.

I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've managed to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasonings and processes, and I've been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They've usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I've created with myself so well.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this dimension is largely ignored in scientific research, which tends to focus on health and other such benefits. I suppose the difference has to do with the contrast in views of the self from the spiritual and scientific perspectives. Scientists value the self; spiritual traditions have another perspective.